This story is from Kaiser Health News After the recent mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif., in which 11 people were killed at a country music bar, President Donald Trump struck a familiar refrain: “It’s a mental health problem,” he said of the gunman, Ian David Long. “He was a very sick puppy.” Similarly, after […]

November is National Diabetes Month, but for the more than a million children and adults in the U.S. living with Type 1 diabetes, every day and night is a constant reminder of a physically and emotionally tedious disorder that requires constant monitoring. “I wear an insulin pump, a continuous glucose monitor, do several finger-sticks a […]

This is a Kaiser Health News story. As Americans prepare to cook and consume nearly 50 million turkeys on Thanksgiving Day, an ongoing outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to the poultry means food safety at home is more critical than ever. Federal health officials have identified no single source of the outbreak of Salmonella Reading, […]

A number of New Jersey dioceses announced the establishment of a victim compensation fund and counseling program in response to the multitude of allegations of sexual abuse by clergy and employees of the dioceses in the state over the decades. The Archbishop of Newark, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, announced Monday that the Archdiocese of Newark […]

A former Ohio judge convicted of assaulting his estranged wife in 2014 was taken into custody last week after she was found dead, NBC News reported. Lance Mason served nine months for the assault on Aisha Fraser, which took place in front of their children, according to NBC affiliate WKYC. After his release, Mason was […]

Storm Team 4 is expecting temperatures in the high 20s on Thursday with a wind chill making it feel like the teens, which, according to the National Weather Service, could be one of the coldest Thanksgiving Day on record. Take a closer look at the Thanksgiving travel forecast and, if you are planning on attending […]

The owner of a swanky Upper East Side co-op is suing a husband and wife whose floral company allegedly whipped up a flower arrangement that looked like a graveyard when they were asked to design a “sculpture of movement and beauty” for a renovation project. According to the Nov. 15 complaint filed in Manhattan Supreme […]

Closing arguments are expected to begin Monday in the murder trial of the 22-year-old man accused of killing a young woman when she went out for a run in her Queens neighborhood more than two years ago. Karina Vetrano, 30, went out for her usual run on Aug. 2, 2016. She never came home. Her […]

The U.S. and Western powers on Monday clashed with Russia and others over whether the global chemical weapons watchdog could start apportioning blame for poison gas and nerve agent attacks. At a heated session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ annual conference, both sides bitterly fought over a June decision for the […]

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Monday gave his first major speech since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, expressing support for his son, the crown prince, and making no mention of allegations that the young royal ordered the killing. The annual policy speech by the king instead highlighted Saudi Arabia‘s priorities for […]